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samzenpus
on Monday August 16, 2010 @03:17PM
from the ducking-the-money-shot dept.

tekgoblin writes "Christopher Sun of Hong Kong is directing a new porn movie that will actually be in 3-D. The movie is being called 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy and will be the first 3-D IMAX porn movie. From the article: 'First out of the gates, the soft porn Hong Kong film comes as the stricken industry, hit hard by free Internet porn in recent years, turns to 3-D as a potential money-spinner, following on from the success of Hollywood blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar.'"

This is not the first 3D porn movie. I have several porn movies in 3D that predate this by years.

Yup. The film that is most widely cited as the first 3D pornographic movie is Hot Skin [wtf-film.com] from 1977, predating the film in the linked article by over 30 years. It also featured some comparatively famous porn stars of the day, such as Serena and John Holmes.

It's an insightful observation. A surprising number of theatres advertising IMAX-like capabilities (and who may or may not incorrectly use the IMAX name) don't actually have “genuine” IMAX projection equipment.

In fact, the movie Taxi Driver has taken on an almost surreal additional undertone in the years since its release because of scenes in the cinema where pornographic movies are playing, particularly when Travis takes Betsy to one. The whole setup--people calmly watching a sex film in an almost deserted theatre--is so bizarre that it gives the impression of these scenes being some hallucination in Travis' mind, similar to the "Are you talking to me" scene. This colours all kinds of scenes such as the one with

Furthermore this is a remake of an erotic cult classic "sex and zen", and at least two of the lead actresses (actors don't really count of course) are from the JAV industry. It's hard to find Hong Kong actresses who willingly bare it all.

This is a Category III film, Hong Kong's version of Nc17, just simulated sex, no money shot or actual penetration of any kind. Technically that stuff is illegal in HK.

For what it's worth, these films are not really porn in the conventional sense, they are arousing in parts (such as Amy Yip in the hottub in the first movie) and disgusting in parts (such as the equally beautiful and equally naked Shu Qi draining life energy in the second). Sex and Zen is entertaining, funny, sexy and a bit scary. It has lot

Are those by chance red-cyan goggles? Then they might in fact do something for you, by letting you already experience porn in all four dimensions! Pull on your goggles, and off you go here [3dp.cz] (just click ok) or to your a nearest torrent vendor.

I think they found the easiest way to close/revoke license of an IMAX theatre. If you can't make money with your IMAX technology theater and want it to be revoked, just announce this movie. A poster would be enough. Perhaps you won't have to pay a fee to Sony for early termination, that is the genius part:)

Movie business, especially high end IMAX etc. aren't really youtube. You can't upload everything and expect them to play it. Wonder if that guy really have any clue about the business side of things?

You realize this is incredibly popular. Cooking shows have been popular for a long time. Food Network is very successful. A show like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is not much more than watching a guy eat tons of food and talk about how wonderful it is. If that doesn't fit the analogy perfectly, I don't know what does.

We are hard-wired to love the Four Fs. Feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fucking. And we are more than happy to watch video of all of them.

So? It's still pleasurable, just like eating alone can be enjoyable, while eating with others is enjoyable for different reasons. Either way, its a human drive being satiated. And it's *certainly* nothing that should trigger a concern for the human species.

Heck, and that's entirely precluding those couples who use pornography as an element in their sexual relationship.

You are assuming that watching is not a desirable action. Mirror neurons in your brain simulate the actions you view so basically to your brain eating and watching eating cause the same neurological responses. It is a necessary reaction for humans or we are unable to comprehend the feelings that other people have. What is worrying is that society has taboos in it to make us feel that if something is enjoyable it is inherently bad for us.

I prefer to go into city porn theaters. I take one of those 'super soaker' type water guns and fill it with white hand lotion (I prefer Jergens). I sit in the back and start 'shooting my load', as it were, all over the crowd. Oddly, very few of them seem to mind.

I mean, it's not like 3D television is a niche technology that adds very little to some genres of entertainment...why wouldn't you want to watch sitcoms of people sitting around talking in 3D--it would be something to distract you from the crappy story!

But seriously, I'm curious, what kind of stuff you think would actually be worth paying extra to get in 3D (to pay for production costs and viewing equipment)? So far only action flicks have gone for it because their sole attraction is visual effects. I co

I'm willing to bet this one is going "straight to video" and as soon as several 3D pr0n releases appear, my guess is that 3D television sales will see a jump. And why not, pr0n was leading the charge on both VHS and The Internet... why not 3D televisions!

No, I am afraid that some great "action" and film will be wasted if they didn't investigate who owns IMAX brand, most of the theaters, technology and whether it will be really possible to show their "work" on IMAX.

IMAX=Sony and Sony isn't really known to be liberal about porn. The "tape length" story is kinda overrated but Sony really didn't want beta format factories to press porn/sex movies. That is a fact.They are liberal about actual art BTW, don't misunderstand.

Didn't the p0rn industry complain when the DVD format came, that the quality of the image was too good? You could see every pimple, every stubby hair, etc..
And now, there is p0rn movie in more than 5 times that resolution... and in 3D!

(assumption that 1080p 35 mm, more or less, and that the IMAX flick is 70 mm)

Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Argh! Still won't work. Damnit. Who thought of adding a filter to a site used by computer scientists that objects to posting LISP data structures? Guess I just need some random text.

This rumor has been debunked several times, if you do a Google search you will find a lot of stories explaining why it's not true. Not only was porn actually available on Betamax (as this pervert demonstrates [google.com]), but the war was mainly over tape length. Everyone had super-small TVs back then anyway, so quality of the tape didn't matter much, it still looked like garbage on the screen (by today's standards). This was doubly true if you were recording something off the air.

We were early adopters and went beta. I remember actually buying used movies, including porn because it was quite a LOT cheaper to pick up former rentals in the clearance bins than blank beta tapes.

We took it home, watched it once (maybe), peeled off the label, threw away the box, marked it read/write, and then overwrote it with recorded broadcast movies movies, TV shows, and whatever, else until it wore out and then threw it away...

Yes and no. By the time VCRs were becoming mainstream, the 3 hour L750 tapes were available, and 4 hour VHS tapes were rare at the time. There were other considerations, too. Betamax machines typically cost nearly twice what an equivalent VHS machine did. Betamax tapes were more expensive, too. Betamax machines also had severe reliability problems, as Sony took their usual approach to manufacturing them. The Sony C5 my family had basically had to go bac

When we switched to VHS, the quality difference was very noticeable, even despite the fact that the VHS machine we got was a so-called "VHS-HQ" revision that was supposed to be better than traditional VHS.

That sounds like a marketing gimmick. The only real improvement was S-VHS, which needed expensive tapes (there was a later rev. that tried to use standard tapes, which helped a bit, not a bad compromise for time-delay of TV programs).

Regular VHS was about half of the broadcast quality, Beta and S-VHS were

However as a masturbation tool anyone who tries to build a business model by showing porn in public is doomed to failure because no one is encouraged to masturbate in public. In fact that would be kind of creepy.

This is Hong Kong. Your western sensibilities are inferior and unwanted.

Porn is a masturbation tool. Soft porn has no use at all, except maybe to pretend to be porn where real porn doesn't or can't exist.

Porn is a sex toy. You can enjoy it with a partner or on your own. As for soft porn, consider this scenario: have you ever been out, seen an attractive woman and used her as wank fodder later? She wasn't going down on some guy in the subway or dancing naked but it was still enough to arouse you. That's basically how soft porn works.

Porn is a masturbation tool. Soft porn has no use at all, except maybe to pretend to be porn where real porn doesn't or can't exist.

Wrong assumption. Hardcore and softcore serve different purposes. You are mostly right about hardcore. Softcore used to be a replacement for non-adult teens who couldn't get hardcore, but could get softcore. These days, with the Internet and any kind of filth you want one search away, that purpose has vanished.

However, there have been quite a few "erotic movies" made in the past twenty or so years. Sometimes hardcore, sometimes softcore, always with the focus less on masturbation and more on... well, I gues